[Maine-birds] Sandy Point Morning Flight, 9/6 (20spp warblers including CONNECTICUT)

Hi all,

A very good flight passed over and through Sandy Point Beach, Cousin's Island, Yarmouth this morning.

6:09am to 9:05am.

42F.  Clear.  Calm to light WNW to W.

w/ Dan Nickerson

355 Unidentified

260 Northern Parulas

233 American Redstarts

107 Black-throated Green Warblers

44 Cedar Waxwings

36 Yellow Warblers

16 Black-and-white Warblers

14 Red-eyed Vireos

12 Magnolia Warblers

9 Blackpoll Warblers

8 American Goldfinches

6 White-winged Scoters

4 Nashville Warblers

4 Black-throated Blue Warblers

3 Unidentified empids

3 Canada Warblers

3 Wilson's Warblers

3 Yellow-rumped Warblers

2 Mourning Doves

2 Chimney Swifts

2 Blue-headed Vireos

2 Philadelphia Vireos

2 Tree Swallows

2 Bay-breasted Warblers

2 Blackburnian Warblers

2 Unidentified Geothlypis

1 Solitary Sandpiper

1 BLACK GUILLEMOT – spotted on the water by Becky Marvil; my 176^th species at Sandy Point.

1 Osprey

1 Eastern Wood-Pewee

1 Least Flycatcher

1 "Traill's" Flycatcher

1 Eastern Phoebe

1 Unidentified flycatcher

1 Ruby-throated Hummingbird

1 Unidentified Vireo

1 Brown Creeper

1 Golden-crowned Kinglet

1 Cape May Warbler

1 Chestnut-sided Warbler

1 CONNECTICUT WARBLER – my second confirmed here.  Well seen relatively low overhead by Dan Nickerson and myself.  Big, broad-chested warbler with long undertail coverts and fully yellow underside.  Grayer hood.  Face/eye not seen. 

1 Prairie Warbler

1 Tennessee Warbler

1 Chipping Sparrow

1 Bobolink

Total = 1155, including 19 species of warblers.  Common Yellowthroats in the powerline cut made 20 spp. 

-Derek

 

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